P. J. Moloney

(Patrick James) P. J. Moloney (20 March 1869 – 4 September 1947) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician.

He was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for the Tipperary South constituency at the 1918 general election.[1] In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann.[2] He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency at the 1921 elections.

He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. He was re-elected for the same constituency at the 1922 general election, this time as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD, but he did not take his seat in the Dáil. He did not contest the 1923 general election.[3]

A great-grandson is the Irish historian Eunan O'Halpin.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Mr. P. J. Moloney". Oireachtas Members Database. http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=1&MemberID=771&ConstID=172. Retrieved 10 April 2009. 
  2. ^ "Roll call of the first sitting of the First Dáil" (in Irish). Dáil Éireann Historical Debates. 21 January 1919. http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/DT/D.F.O.191901210004.html. Retrieved 29 March 2008. 
  3. ^ "P. J. Moloney". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1077. Retrieved 10 April 2009. 
  4. ^ Martin Mansergh (28 June 2008). "Neutral by name". The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0628/1214567621480.html.